U.S. regulator just legalized crypto's hottest product on American soil — Coinbase is first in line
The main U.S. derivatives regulator just cleared the way for crypto perpetual futures contracts to be offered on American soil for the first time. Coinbase was specifically named as a platform receiving approval to offer these products.
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Perpetual futures are the single most popular crypto trading product in the world, responsible for the vast majority of global crypto trading volume — but until now they've only existed on offshore, unregulated exchanges. The CFTC just changed that by giving Coinbase and other regulated U.S. platforms the green light to offer them domestically. This is a brand-new, high-margin revenue stream opening up for Coinbase with essentially no additional customer-acquisition cost, since millions of U.S. crypto traders have been using offshore platforms just to access these products. When a company with a publicly traded stock suddenly gains access to a massive new revenue source that Wall Street hasn't fully priced in yet, the stock tends to climb over the following weeks as analysts update their models.